Beading



E. W. AUFDERHEIDE.

BEADING.

APPLICATION. HI.ED OCT. 10. une.

1,353,885. Patented8epfi 28, 1920.

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E. W. AUFDERHEIDE.

BEADING.

APILlCATION msn on. 10. I919.

UNiTED STATES PATENT Ta aZlcvfiom de my concem 7 Be 1t kno wn that I,Epwnnn Aornnn- HEI DE, a 'c1t1zen of.the United States, and a res1dentof the citybf Chiag0, in the,ont of Cook and State of Illinols, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Beading; and I do herebydeclaretht the foliowing is a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, accompanying d1awings, and to the numerals of reference markedthereon, -vvlnich form a part of this speoification.

This invention relates to improvemen in beading employed in covering theedges of the upholstered portions of furniture, automobiles and thelike.

It has been proposed to make beading by driving nails or tacks along thecenter line of a rip oi leather and then folding the edges 1nward t0butt against each other and finally applying a cover thereto. Thismethod is disadvantageous in many respects. In the first place, a grooveappears along the center of the beading when the tacks are driven hometo secure the beading in place. Further, a good round form cann0t beobtained b v folding once a single strip 01 material. Again. if thematerial is of suflcient thickness so that by i:olding once the beadinghas the desired dimensions, the latter is very stif and it is diflcultto curve it to correspond with the curved edge of the upholstering.

It is an object, therefore, of the present invention to provide animproved form of beading for upholstered articles.

Another object of the invention is to provide a substantially round formof beading.

A further object of the invention is to provide a more flexible form ofbeading.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a form of beading whichwill retain its round form after the tacks embedded therein have beendriven home.

Other and further important objects of this invention will be apparentfrom the disclosures in the drawings and specificatien.

The. invention (in a preferred form) is illustrated in the drawings andhereinafter more fully described.

According to the present invention the beading is formed from a.relatively wide strip of comparatively thin material, such.

reference beirig had' to the Speciflcatien ef Letters Patent. PatentedSept. 28, 1920. Application filed October 19, 1919. Serial No. 329,790.

as 10 oz. dulck canvas. This is folded longitudinally one or more times,nails are inserted, then one edge i,s tumed inward over the nail hasandth otheidge folded in- Ward over the first d e. Finally a suitable coverLis apPlidx he variou s plies of fabric are secnred. together and thecover is attached to the fi)ld"ed fabric;by a flexible form of glue orcinnt, slias rubber cement, to allow the cdnipletedbading to flex asdesired.

In formingfithibeading any suitable form of apparatus inay' bempl0ed,such as that illustmted diagrammhticall in the accOrnpanying drawings,in which:

Figure 1 is a diagrummatic side view of a machine for making my improvedbeading.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a side View of the completed beading.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the same.

ig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of F ig. I.

F ig. 6 is a section on the line 66 of Fig. 1

Fig. 7 is Fig. 1.

ig. Fig. 3.

Fig. 9 is an and view of the beading pulled apart at its end to show itsconstruction more clearly.

As shown in the drawings:

The canvas strip or tape 1, from which the beading is to be made, iswound on a. reel 2 after passing it through a bath of rubber cernent orotherwise treating it to malte it tacky. From this reel the strip 1passes over a roller 3 arranged perpendicular to the reel bv Which it isgiven a single longitudinal fold. Next the strip passes around a roll 4parallel to the reel 2, by Which the folded tape is refolded to grive afour-ply strip. The strip then passes under a tack delivering andapplying device 5 by means of which tacks 11 are driven through thecenter portion of the strip at rgular intervals.

Now the edges of the strip are folded inward by drawing the stripthrough a con ical former 6, WlllCh causes the ed S te overlap eachother above the heads ozhe tacks, as shown more particularly in Fig. 8.The beading is then ready for the application a section on the line 77of 8 is a section on the line 88 of thereto of a cover 7 of leather,cloth or other heir heads embedded in the folded strp of materialsimilar to that used for the upfabric.

holstering of the articles to which the bead- 2. Beading comprising astrip of abric ing is applied. twce folded longitudinally, a line ofmails This cover strip 7 is fed from a mal 8 passed throngh t;hflportion of the around a roll 9 immediately above the beaddouble foldedstrip, the edges of the folded ing so that the two pass together into asecstrip being tumed forward to oveflap each 0nd c0nical former 10 bymeans of which other and cover the nail heads, and an outer thecover iswrapped moundthe beading. cover around the folded fabrie.

The final step is the passage of the cov- 3. A method of forming beadingincludered bending between a pair of grooved rolls ing f01ding a strip0f fabric longitudinally, 12, 13 to ive the beading auniform roundedref0lding the folded strip longitudinahy, smooth s mpe. The beading isthen wound insertizgg mails along a line down the cen;er upon a mal 14.nf the refolded stx;ip, then turfii ng 011e edg e I am aware thatnume1ons details of coninward over the nail heads and the otherstruction may be varied through a wide edge inw;ard over the first edgeand finally range without departing from the principles ap ying a noutarcover. of this invention, and I therefore do not n te saimo1ywhereo I have hereunbo.sub-

pm39ose limiting the patent granced otherscribed my name 111 thepresence of two sub-,

wise than necessitad by the prior art. scribing witnessefi.

Lclnm as my mventxon: y 7 1. Beading comprising a strip of fabric EDWARDAUFDERHIDE' folded 'mto substantiafly cy1indrical form, VVmesses;

un enter q0ver, and Jacks having their EA}3L HAfiuI ;}IE, pointsprojgctng beyond the beading and Camus W. HILLS

